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You know the divine game is afoot; When your eyes close tight, When your heart constricts and restricts the flow of blood, When your breathing slows down, When your mouth dries up, When your head is dizzy and yet you smile, When love has enveloped you!

Some soulful tune plays in the tunnel of my heart - do you hear? Look up at the sky! An ochre, crescent moon shoots slivers of light! Thrumming in the dark silence of the night, Are those strains of your voice that rise and fall away?  Sequences and phrases from what you had said earlier today!

Dekhna hain zor kitna baazuein kaatil mein hain! How did they manufacture such explosive gunpowder within themselves? Leaving the foreign ruler's citadel of power and Their brutal, butchering machinery Thoroughly shattered! Some brave-hearts sacrifice themselves and turn martyrs, So the rest stay inspired to fight on! Supreme sacrifice they offer As an act of defiance against injustice. So the nation awakens united! Binding people is their life's only objective Against alien rule and its intolerable, inhuman cruelty. Bhagat, Rajguru and Sukhdev Their mother's pride; Our motherland's shining lights! The love for their motherland greater than all else Guiding lights for generations to come! No we don't have to remind ourselves about them. They are and will eternally remain indelible. Let us rededicate ourselves to our nation Whatever endeavour we may be involved in! Yet, let the interests of the nation Always remain supreme.

When you are watching a Hindi movie and if it is able to remind you of the Bourne series, Munich and a few other top-notch suspense thrillers from Hollywood stables there has got to be something happening already. And yet there are just traces of these Hollywood thrillers. What you have instead is a totally native and original script plus a Kolkata-centric story full of unpredictable twists and turns and acting that rachets up the quality to levels hardly ever seen before in Bollywood. Quote from Bollywood Analytics on Facebook: A suspense thriller like this rarely comes out of Bollywood. An editor does a good job when the audience has little to no time to get distracted or bored and here Kahaani scores well . A must watch film for movie buffs! The high score notched up by this film will be tough to beat for most films ! Vidya Balan and Parambrata have given stellar performances. Vidya depicts her anxious, scared character flawlessly. Parambrata is this police constable who ...

There is this dance sequence from the movie ‘Shirdi Ke Sai Baba’ that I came across recently, in which the ‘Lavani’ (a form of traditional Marathi song accompanied with dance) performer is singing and dancing about having forgotten all things worldly, so intense is her love for her lover.  Throughout, so graceful and sensuous - the performer has done full justice to the song and Asha Bhosle’s voice is at its lilting best! There is a constant dynamic motion as a result of jumps and other visible body movements, interspersed with subtle and slow movement of the hands (dancer’s palms painted pink) and fingers along with facial expressions in lock-step with the subtle movements that add to the grace and accentuate the beauty of the specific sub-sequence. Synchronization with the music (predominantly dholaks and sitar) and keeping up with the tempo of the singing by Asha Bhosle catapults the sequence to a level where it has a near-mesmerizing e...

If he can play, why can't I? He has the world as his playground, I have my little life! And my emotions. Let me dedicate my life to his game! He builds and destroys at will; I cannot be as versatile, but can't I try? He accepts and rejects my desires and wishes. Likewise I play on: synthesize and rip apart! Outrage yes I play with outrage! Suprise myself and others. Like source, like channel! Follow in his footsteps! There are good players and better players! All that you come across are your playthings. Sometimes you get bruised, injured, sometimes you team up; Sometimes you compete, rules change as do his seasons! Emulate him. Game on! As he plays with us, join in! Earn points, karma whatever. Dive Deep. Or play at the surface if you wish to! Play and see, there is nothing to lose. Nothing to win. It is all a game and Serious or frivolous - all the same. It is all in the game! Life as it were, would m...